Ph.D. in Physics

The physics graduate program at Bryn Mawr College offers graduate students academic excellence, exciting research opportunities, and competitive financial support in a distinctive environment where shared intellectual work thrives in a liberal arts college setting. Our small size allows students and faculty members to work together closely and for formal graduate course work to be handled in small tutorials, which can be tailored to the students' needs.

We offer Ph.D. and Master's programs in the experimental and theoretical research specialties, including atomic and optical physics, molecular spectroscopy and dynamics, plasma physics and turbulence, nanoscience and spintronics, and quantum field theory and string theory.

Bryn Mawr is a distinguished women’s college located on a beautiful residential campus outside a major metropolitan area. Two distinctive coed graduate schools and a post-baccalaureate premedical program enrich the College community and offer advanced study opportunities.

At Bryn Mawr, students choose from various majors in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. The College is a leader in academic innovation, focusing on putting learning into action through research, fieldwork, community and social justice engagement, and internships. Bryn Mawr further expands students’ options to learn and explore through long-standing partnerships with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and the University of Pennsylvania and through the cultural and social resources of Philadelphia.